The Bible was nominations for the Original Music Score, by Toshiro Mayazumi, but the winner was John Barry for Born Free.

This sequel lost its Oscar nominated Song “Shakedown” to the more popular tune, “I've Had the Time of My Life,” from “Dirty Dancing,” by Franke Previte, John DeNicola, and Donald Markowitz.

Three films dealing with romance are opening this week, Tony Scott's True Romance, Bette by Frenchman Claude Chabrol, and The Wedding Banquet, a lovely farce, made by Ang Lee, a Taiwanese-American filmmaker. Each explores love while using a different narrative strategy and style, yet all three indicate in their own way the relevance of romance and passion in our increasingly tumultuous world.

Directed by Jean Negulesco (Oscar-nominated for the 1948 melodrama “Johnny Belinda”), the film has an all-star cast, headed by Joan Crawford, as the boss, and Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer, Diane Baker as girls. Among the male supporting roles were Stephen Boyd, Brian Aherne, Louis Jordan, and Robert Evans.